Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29762, John Dodge, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Dodge, John
S-29762
CONTENTS

Dead.
Order to pay letter to L. W. Storer 7 March 1838
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 March 1834 to the 28 May 1834 the day of said Pen- sioner's death. Notified 22 June 1838.
John Dodge
11 8.50 2.50
21.980.
Massachusetts John Dodge
Settleton in the State of Massachusetts who was a private in the Comp. commanded by Captain Dodge of the Regt. commanded by Col. — " — in the Massachusetts line for 23 months and 3 days
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Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 11 Dollars 00 Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of Nov: 1833 and sent to S. Dana Groton
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 33 $190.50 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4th No. 34 38.50 $229.00
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by J. C. Allen Clerk. Book E. Vol. 1. Page 18.

Declaration of 28. 1/20 John Dodge.
Private 23 mths day Adm'd
Sam d Dana Groton Ws Agent to receive the Cost.

Declaration of 28.1.20 John Dodge.
Wrote 23 m s & 3 days aboard
Sam d Dana Quotson Mr Agent to receive the Cost.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex ss.
On this fifteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two , personally appeared in open Court, before the Honourable Judge of the Court of Probate, in and for the County of Middlesex aforesaid, now sitting, John Dodge a resident of Littleton in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy  three years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, A. D. 1832:
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated:
That he entered the service in the Spring of the year One Thousand seven hundred and seventy  seventy five for the term of three  eight months and was in the Company of Capt. John  Richard Dodge where he served in the vicinity of Boston, the name of the Co. of the Reg t to which this Company was attached he does not recollect, nor can he remember, his term he served out his three  eight months and was regularly discharged. — The next engaged to join the Army under Genl. Gates in the fall AD 1777 and was in Capt. Richard Dodge Company one month, under the Command of Major Smith, he did not reach Gates Army, but was dismissed at the expiration of one month. And after Brimley's Troops arrived at Water hill he entered the service to Guard those troops and remained in service in Capt. John Dodge's Company in Col. Gerrish's Regiment from the first of November AD 1777 to the mid dle of July AD 1778 when having served eight months and an half he was discharged, he well remembers that his Lieut s were Baker and Perkins. — In the year AD 1776 he entered the service for three months in the Company of Capt. Towne, but he can not tell the time when this service commenced he can not tell whether this Company was attached to any Regiment — nor to who his Company Officers were. Capt. Towne belonged to Topsfield in Mass one Israel Knowlton and belonged to Ipswich and himself lived in Salem, he well remembers doing duty in Boston, was on Guard on the long Wharf where Goods were landed, and some Muskets also, which he stowed away in a Store, and at the expiration of three months was dismissed. — In the fall of AD 1781. he engaged to go to West point for three months, and again entered Capt. Richard Dodge's Company in Col. Putnam's Regiment near West point and served out his three months and was dismissed, in this service Samuel Ober of Wenham was a Sergeant, but he can not recollect. — He has not been able to find any Evidence of his first service in 1775, beyond the first of August all persons who were in the Company having either died or removed to places unknown to him — Nor has he been able to hear of any person who served with him in Capt. Towne's Company in 1776 nor to procure any Documentary evidence of that service. — He remembers being stationed on Dorchester Heights, and he also recollects doing Police duty in Castle Island — near Fort Independence. — He was born in Wenham in Mass on the 12 th Sept r AD 1760. He has not any family or other record of his age, but has always been told that this was the time

of his Birth - When he went into service he lived at Woburn in Mass a and continued to live there till 1819 when he removed to Littleton where he has lived ever since - all his services were voluntary and by enlistment - as Owing to the loss of memory (and right also) he cannot call to mind any of his Officers in his first and second services only those he has named - At Woburn till he joined under his Father Capt. John Dodge - He has no recollection that any written discharge was given him - In his former Neighborhood he knew the late Col. Picking, The Hon. Dea. Kilham, and in his present Neighborhood he is well known to Nathan Brown, Benj. Dexter and Jonathan Hartwell. 8/19/5.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any state, In presence of Sam l Dana Subscribed Sworn to J. P. Day John Dodge mark Middlesex County Dept.
We, Amasa Sanderson a clergyman, residing in the Town of Easton adjoining Littleton and Barnabas Dodge residing in Littleton in said County hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with John Dodge who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; - that we believe him to be seventy three years of age: that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
In presence of Sam l Dana Amasa Sanderson Barnabas Dodge Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Before me Sam l Dana jus Peace.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above-named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certify, that it appears to them that Amasa Sanderson who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in Easton as aforesaid - and that Barnabas Dodge who has also signed the same, is a resident in Littleton as aforesaid and is a credible person; and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Isaac Fisher Register of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Middlesex, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of for a pension and that Samuel Dana Esq. is a Justice of the Peace for said County and the above is his Signature - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office on the day and year first aforesaid. Isaac Fisher

Treasury Department,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
June 18 th 1838.
Sir.
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States;" The children of John Dudge deceased, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of seventy seven Dollars and 11 11/12 Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March 1834 to the twenty eighth of May 1834, the day of said pensioner's death. — Respectfully, yours.
Horace H. Parrish Comptroller
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

I John T. Dodge of the town of Wenham and State of Massachusetts agree sixty nine years. on Oath say That I have been well acquainted with John Dodge now of Little- ton in said state. for more than fifty years; he and I have lived near each other for more than fifty years: I know that he served three months in Revolutionary war from September 1781. to December 1781. at West- point, in Captain Richard Dodge's company in the Regiment Commanded by Colo. Putnam Putnam. I served that time in the same company. —
John T. Dodge
Wenham: September 20 th 1833. —
Then the said John T. Dodge a Creditable and disinterested witness Subscribed and made Oath to the above. —
Moses Foster Just Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex ss. I John Prince jr. Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in said County do hereby certify that Moses Foster is a Justice of the Peace in said County & that I believe his signature within is genuine. Witness my hand & the seal of said Court at Salem Sept. 20, 1833.
John Prince jr. clk.
Deposition of John T. Dodge
1833 7/28 60

Littleton M Mary Mr. Evans
free
J. S. Edwards Esq. (in Pension Office) Washington D.C.

Littleton, Mass. May 11/38
J. L. Edwards Esq. Sir You will doubtless recognize at once, the enclosed letter dated "War Department Pension Office March 7 th 1838" - My object in forwarding the same to you, is that you may the more readily understand my own. There seems to have been a strange fatality attending the efforts of the applicants to obtain the interest of pension due the late John Dodge, and all on account of delay in the part of these same applicants. The last & present difficulty they have to contend with, is the operation of the late act directing the return of balance of funds in the hands of the several pension agents, & consequently there being no funds in the hands of the pension agent at Boston, on application for the same due as above. I am requested by Barnabas Dodge in behalf of all interested, to make known to you the above mentioned facts & solicit your interference. Should you have occasion to

write me on the subject, please address me to Mr. Littleton, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts.
I am, very Respectfully, Yours sincerely, Louis Agassiz.

unite me in the subject, please address me to Mr. Littleton, Middlesex Co. Massachusetts.
I am, Very Respectfully, Yours Sincerely, Louis Agassiz.

Boston, March 1 st , 1838.
Sir,
I herewith enclose for your examination the powers of Attorney from the heirs of John Dodge dec d which are over ninety days old. They were presented at the Commonwealth Bk. for payment in September last but the Magistrate's signature having been omitted to the power executed by W m Dodge it was returned for correction and not again presented until after it had expired. Under these circumstances I have respectfully to request that a Special order may be issued authorizing payment.
I am Sir very resp ctf .
Your obt serv t L. M. Stone
J. L. Edwards Esq r Com te of Pensions Washington D. C.

29762 INVALID.
Reorg
File No. 29,762
John Dodge Li Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32 nd
Index: —Vol. 2 , Page 111
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Certificate of Levy Bangs for John Dodge

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, August 29 th 1833.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of John Dodge as a private is borne on a Muster Roll of Capt. Richard Dodge's Company, where he is allowed from May 1 st to August 1 st 1773. for services and travel three months & two days. m d 3=2
John Dodge's name is found on a Pay Roll of Capt. Richard Dodge's Company, commanded by Major Smith, to join the Army, under Genl. Gates. where he is allowed from Sept 30 th 1777. twenty eight days. — — — — — - 28
John Dodge's name is found on a Muster Roll of Capt. John Dodge's Company, in the Regt. of Guards commanded by Col. Jacob Gerrish where he is allowed from November 11 th 1777. to Feb y 3 rd 1778. two months and twenty two days. — — — — — 2=22
John Dodge's name is found on a Muster Roll of Capt. John Dodge's Company, in Col. Jacob Gerrish's Regiment. where he is allowed from the 3 rd of Feb y to the 3 rd of April 1778. two months and one day. — — — — — 2=1 8=23

Amount brought Over— m d 8 = 28
John Dodge's name is found on a Muster Roll of Capt John Dodge's Company, Col. Jacob Gerrish's Regt. of Guards, where he is allowed from the first of April to the first of July 1778, three months and two days. — — — — — 3 = 2
John Dodge's name is found on a Pay Roll of Capt. Dodge's Company, Col. Jacob Gerrish's Regt. where he is allowed from the 2 d to the 12 th of July 1778. ten days. — — — — — 10 12 = 0 5
John Dodge claims further services under Capt Richard Dodge in 1775. also for services under Capt Town, in 1776. and under Capt Richard Dodge in 1781. the rolls of which are not found in this Office—
Edward D. Bangs Esq
It is probably known to the Department that the rolls of the first eight months service in A. D. 1775 do not extend beyond the first of August 1775. This accounts for the applicant's not being made up beyond that time, in his first period of service.
S. Dana Ag t